Endgame
Subtitle: secret talks and the end of apartheid
By: Willie Esterhuyse
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780624054276; 9780624058120
Subjects: Politics and government; Apartheid; African National Congress; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Two telephone calls; title: Between the iron fist and dialogue: the political context; title: Hospital visits and secret meetings: Mandela, Coetsee and Barnard; title: Talks in the basement; title: Thabo Mbeki joins the dialogue; title: Mells Park: "Consensus is not just a dream"; title: Flittwick: funeral for apartheid?; title: PW Botha in political decline; title: "Watch this space": the NIS makes a move; title: Tea party at Tuynhuys: Botha meets Mandela; title: "Archenemies": the ice is broken in Switzerland; title: Front-page news in the Sunday Times; title: A new covenant: 2 February 1990; title: Cricket, economic posers and Mandela released; title: Swan song in England; title: Back in South Africa: talks must continue; title: The New South Africa: a tension between hope and despair; title: Epilogue: track-two negotiations and the value of secret talks.